Let me get this straight. Failed asylum seeker Kawa Ali Azad has six ­convictions for violence, carries knives and is on the run after breaching his bail conditions for making threats against his ex-wife. Yet a judge rules that to detain him would violate his human rights.

Meanwhile, the woman he beat unconscious and whose son he threatened to kidnap has been ordered not to visit family or friends. She must carry an “abduction pack” at all times, with the details of her four-year-old boy’s DNA.

Essentially, Tania Doherty is the ­prisoner while Azad roams free. Tony Blair claims in his autobiography A Journey that establishing the Human Rights Act was one of his proudest achievements. Is it still, Mr Blair?

NB: The former prime minister walked into a book signing where shoes were thrown at him. I understand Cherie gathered them all up and has put the lot on eBay.